Improvement in harvesters



J. H. JONES.

Harvester.

Patented Feb. 23, 1869.

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UNITED STATES J. HERVA JONES, OF ROOKFORD,ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN HARVESTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 87,264, dated February 23, 1869.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, .J. HERVA JONES, of Rockford, in the county of Winnebago and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Harvesters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accom panying drawings, which make part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 represents a plan or top view of so much of a harvester, embodying all the improvements herein claimed, as is necessary to illustrate the invention; Fig. 2, a vertical section through the same, at the line 0 0 of Fig. l; and Fig. 3, a transverse section through the same, at the line w w of Fig. 2.

My invention relates to that class of barvesters in which the cut grain is bound by persons riding on the machine. The object of this part of my invention is to protect the bolts from abrasion, and yet to secure the penetration of the teeth to their full depth into the grain; and the improvement consists in a novel method of combining an elevatingapron, composed of parallel, independent, endless toothed bands, running in grooves in their supporting-frame, (of such depth that the bands are bothprotected from abrasion from the grain, and retained in their proper places,) with a carrying-roller below the binding-table, and with a series of slots in one side of the binding-table, through which slots the teeth escape after delivering the grain.

The object of the next part of my invention is to prevent scattering or tangling of the grain while passing upward to the receiver and the improvement consists in a novel method of combining, with a receptacle into which the grain to be bound is fed from underneath, a hinged flap or board, (which forms one side of the passage through which the grain passes,) having a ledge or flange which hooks over the binders table, and thus connects it with the receptacle.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the main frame of the machine B, the The grain falls as it is out upon an endless apron, D, (running upon suitable rollers, and driven by power applied to a pulley, E, or in some other well-known way,) which conducts it beneath the inner binders stand F to the elevator, consisting of a series of independent endless bands, H, provided with suitable teeth h, and running over rollers h if. The upper or carrying-roller h is driven, in this instance, by a band, e, from the pulley E, encircling a pulley, G, on the carrying-roller h The endless belts H run in grooves in the supportingframe I, which grooves serve both to keep the belts in place, and to protect them from contact with the grain. The belts are firmly supported by the board or frame over which they run, and their teeth are thus kept fully inserted in the grain. The lower end of a flap or board, J, is connected with the footboard F by a strip, j, of leather, or other flexible material. The upper edge of this flap is provided with a flange, J, which overlaps or hooks over the edge of the inner binding-table K. The flap thus constructed forms an elastic wall for one side of the passage, through which the grain ascends to the receptacle L, of which the flange J forms one side. The passage is thus accommodated to the quantity of grain elevated, without allowing any of it to escape. The carrying-roller h is arranged close to the receptacle, near its top. The outer side of the receiver is provided with slots m, through which the carrying-belts pass. A binders stand, F, and table K are arranged on the outer side of the receptacle, in the usual way. tables are large enough to accommodate more than one binder, if required.

My improvements are, of course, to be applied to a fully-organized machine.

In operation the cut grain is carried by the apron D under the inner foot-board F, and delivered to the belts H, the teeth of which carry it up into the receptacle L, whence it is taken to be bound. The flange J supports the flap J, and bridges over the space between the receptacle and the inner binding-table K 5 in fact, the flange forms part of the receptacle.

An elevator, consisting of teeth on transverse bars, arranged on an endless apron, has heretofore been employed in combination with a loose cover bearing upon the rising grain; but this device obviously differs from mine, and, moreover, did not deliver the grain through the bottom of the receptacle.

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The binders foot-boards and What I claim as my invention, and desire necting the binders stand and table, for the i to secure by Letters Patent, ispurposes specified.

1. The combination, substantially as set In testimony whereof I have hereunto subforth, of independent, endless, toothed belts, scribed my name. traversing in guiding-grooves, with a carrying-roller andslotted table, for the purposes J. HERVA JONES. specified. Witnesses:

2. The combination, substantially as set J. Gr. MANLOVE,

forth, with the elevator, of the loose flap con- BYRON GRAHAM. 

